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Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids

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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>> Adding Ted, who might know how this all hooks together. (The context
>>>>> is that a write() or truncate() on a setgid file clears the setgid,
>>>>> but mmap writes don't.)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:29:55PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>>>>>> Using "write" does kill the set-gid bit. I haven't looked at
>>>>>>>> why.
>>>>>>>> Al or anyone else, is there a meaningful distinction here?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I remember this one, I got caught once while trying to put a shell into
>>>>>>> a suid-writable file to get some privileges someone forgot to offer me :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's done by should_remove_suid() which is called upon write() and truncate().
>>>>>
>>>>> file_remove_privs() seems to be the right entry point.
>>>>> __generic_file_write_iter in mm/filemap.c calls it, though. Are these
>>>>> callbacks not used for mmap writes?
>>>>
>>>> They're certainly not used early enough -- we need to remove suid when
>>>> the page becomes writable via mmap (wp_page_shared), not when
>>>> writeback happens, or at least not only when writeback happens.
>>>
>>> Well, I'm shy about the change there. For example, we don't strip in
>>> on open(RDWR), just on write().
>>
>> I take it back. Hooking wp_page_shared looks expensive. :) Maybe we do
>> need to hook the mmap?
>
> But file_update_time already pokes at the same (or nearby) cachelines,
> I think -- why would it be expensive?  The whole thing could be
> guarded by if (unlikely(is setuid)), right?

Yeah, true. I added file_remove_privs calls near all the
file_update_time calls, to no effect. Added to wp_page_shared too,
nothing. Hmmm.

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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Re: [PATCH] namei: permit linking with CAP_FOWNER in userns Dirk Steinmetz <public@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg.com> - 2015-11-02 16:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] namei: permit linking with CAP_FOWNER in userns Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-02 19:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] namei: permit linking with CAP_FOWNER in userns Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-02 21:00 +0100
      [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Dirk Steinmetz <public@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg.com> - 2015-11-03 01:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-03 16:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-11-03 19:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Dirk Steinmetz <public@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg.com> - 2015-11-04 00:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-11-04 00:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2015-11-04 08:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-04 19:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-04 19:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2015-11-04 19:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2015-11-04 19:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-11-06 23:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-06 23:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-11-07 01:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-11-07 01:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-07 01:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-11-07 06:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-11-08 03:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2015-11-10 16:10 +0100
          Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-04 15:50 +0100

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